Land tenure, or access and rights to land, is essential to sustain people’s livelihoods. This paper looks at how farm households perceive land tenure (in)security in relation to food (in)security, and how these perceptions evolve throughout different policy periods in Laos. The paper highlights t...
Keovilignavong, Oulavanh
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Suhardiman, Diana
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[Linking land tenure security with food security: unpacking farm households’ perceptions and strategies in the rural uplands of Laos]
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Linking land tenure security with food security: unpacking farm households’ perceptions and strategies in the rural uplands of Laos
We examine the patterns and characteristics of private investment in Laos, and how these evolve in relation to the Lao government's investment incentive policies in particular, and the wider State policies in general. Our goals are to: (1) systematically describe and analyze the patterns and char...
Keovilignavong, Oulavanh
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Suhardiman, Diana
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[Characterizing private investments and implications for poverty reduction and natural resource management in Laos]
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Characterizing private investments and implications for poverty reduction and natural resource management in Laos
Keovilignavong, Oulavanh
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Suhardiman, Diana
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[Implications of rubber land concessions on local resource governance in Cambodia]
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Implications of rubber land concessions on local resource governance in Cambodia
This paper reexamines how local governments exercised the legal powers related to their official rights and duties to manage the impacts of both large-scale mining (LSM) and artisanal small-scale mining (ASM) activities, and how local households perceived resource changes and what strategies they...
Keovilignavong, Oulavanh
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[Mining governance dilemma and impacts: a case of gold mining in Phu-Hae, Lao PDR]
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Mining governance dilemma and impacts: a case of gold mining in Phu-Hae, Lao PDR
Groundwater use for agriculture has the potential to improve rural households’ income and reduce poverty, but the linkages are not always straightforward. Taking Laos as a case study, this article illustrates how differential access to water, land, and capital shape farmers’ livelihood strategies...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Pavelic, Paul
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Keovilignavong, Oulavanh
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Giordano, Mark
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[Putting farmers’ strategies in the center of agricultural groundwater use in the Vientiane Plain, Laos]
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Putting farmers’ strategies in the center of agricultural groundwater use in the Vientiane Plain, Laos